Hello, I wanted to ask you a question, which RO/s is/are a slow-burn?
depends? they all have their own flavours - i would say that emotionally, lorcan will resist opening up to the mc for a long time; derya would also be more cautious but they’re not necessarily against a relationship; grace and anthony have a lot of pining; mc isn’t able to physically meet the other. robin, gray and lorelei are a little more “straightforward”, but they have their own particular factors which will become clear.
[hopscotch - julio cortázar / “the lady of the house of love”, the bloody chamber and other stories - angela carter / greta garbo / “the rival”, ariel - sylvia plath / friedrich nietzsche / pardis alia / the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald]
very excited to learn more about the world you're creating! <3 can you tell us about the ROs' fave spots to kiss and be kissed?
ooh! (one or two of these could be read as a little spicy, be warned!)
to kiss
lorcan...
loves a good neck kiss. he can feel the other person's warmth, and he can feel the effect he has on them.
robin...
loves to kiss their lover's knuckles. robin's a romantic at heart, and as an added bonus, it's another excuse to hold their lover's hand.
gray...
is a big fan of a drive-by kiss on the cheek. darts in, gives their partner a little kiss, then darts away before they can be caught.
lorelei...
likes to kiss thighs. given their species and own physiology, it's something that's very new for them, and it still has that novelty factor. plus, they like the way that their partner shivers a little.
grace...
likes to, if we're being delicate, kiss a person's décolletage. particularly deep into a relationship, she presses reverent kisses over her lover's heart.
anthony...
would love to give his lover a gentle kiss on the temple. that he is allowed at all would be a reassurance and sign of love in itself, that he is trusted with that vulnerability.
the other...
is in the habit of pressing passionate, possessive, breath-stealing kissed to their lover's lips.
to be kissed
lorcan...
would (and this is a little specific, but bear with) like to be kissed on his forearms, on his scars.
robin...
would very much like kisses on their face - in particular their cheekbones and forehead.
gray...
(needs a couple caveats lol). gray would like plenty of warning/visual cues before someone expresses an interest in kissing them (they would not appreciate a drive-by). if enough warning is given, though, and the context is romantic rather than sexual, i think they would like to be kissed, in principle, anywhere. perhaps their wrist. you might catch them rubbing absentmindedly at it a little afterwards, to try and prolong the feeling.
lorelei...
would like to be kissed on their jawline (but they wouldn't like to be kissed on their neck, that's where their gills are, even if you can't see them when they're on land, and that would be uncomfortable for them).
grace...
would like for someone to kiss her hand - maybe even, if we're being particularly scandalous, her fingertips.
anthony...
would never actually say so using his words, but he would really, really, really like a breath-taking kiss to be honest. he would like that feeling of being swept up in something...more.
the other...
would like someone to kiss their nose. they have, through the medium of dreams, seen it happen to other people and they think it's cute and they want it.
[hélène cixous / david leviathan / atticus / the burning heart - louise glück / “the vine”, selected stories - tennessee williams / ruin and rising - leigh bardugo / david croneberg]
[letters to a young poet - rainer maria rilke / a small bird’s sky (a song) - shiro murano, tr. edith marcombe shiffert & yüki sawa / beginnings of the body, ends of the sea - adonis, tr. khaled mattawa / frankenstein - mary shelley / death in the afternoon - ernest hemingway / friedrich nietzsche]
I just wanted to say thank you so much for including an arospec RO as an arospec person. There isn't a lot of arospec rep in really any form of media, especially if they're not acespec too (though I love and adore my aroace sibs!!), so seeing Lorelei exist means a whole damn lot to me, especially because from what you've shown on the blog, they avoid a lot of the negative arospec stereotypes. Basically my MC and Lorelei are going to be best friends (and also I may want to kiss Gray on the mouth a little from what we've seen in the demo, which I do in fact think is aspec solidarity 😌)
hello! i’m pleased you like it so far - i’m hoping to carry on in the same vein, because as some kind of ace/arospec person myself (more news when i have it), seeing representation is important! i’m looking forward to getting to the point in the game where we can meet the remaining ROs <3
[the thorn merchant - yusuf komunyakaa / “tango”, descending figure - louise glück / iain thomas / karen marie moning / peaches - trista mateer / if beale street could talk - james baldwin / the anthropology of water - anne carson]
[“femininity and its discontents”, the jacqueline rose reader - jacqueline rose / bluets - maggie nelson / agamemnon - aeschylus, tr. anne carson / i had a dream about you - richard siken / “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem - natalie diaz / franz kafka]
